HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-4-29, Page 6AN ECYPTIAN ROMANCE.
A Story of Love and Wild Adventure, founded upon Startling Revelatjt"ns
in the Career of Arabia Pasha.
By the Author of "NINA, THE NIHILIST," "THE RFD SPOT," t'THE Rl75SIAN-SP:>;a"
ET0., ETo,, Ere
CHAPTER I,IV,
VILE IOOST TERRIBLE Or ALL PERILS, AND j' LOST AMONGST MOUNTAINS—NEARLY RUN TO
How NELLIE wasPR$SERVED. 7 EARTH',
CHAPTER LV,
Leaving the two Europeans in pureuit of
six thousand Egyptiane, who were exeonting
a retrogade movement, we will revert to the
fortunes, or rather the misfortunes, of our
lovely Nellie and her parents.
The trio were olcsaly guarded and not even
allowed to hold speech with one another.
Nellie could not help perceiving how the
'dol of an hour had fallen in the common
esti nation,
She heard his conduct being disoussed in
anldusd tones, but in no measured terms,
on all sides of her.
Such grumbling created in her heart a
new alarmfor did the war minister lose his
high position he would be no longer able to
protect her and her parents, and they would
all three assuredly lose their lives.
Whilst these fears and apprehensions dis-
turbed her mind Arabi Pasha himself had
quite enough to endure in turn,
He was continually besot by some officer
of distinction or other proffering hie advice,
and sometimes almost insisting on his coun-
sel being followed.
After a monotonous fourteen miles' march
over the level. candy, treeless plain, the lit-
tle village of Kafr Dowa was reached, where,
though well-nigh exhausted, the troops
were at once set to throw up earthworks
across the narrow isthmus, as a safeguard
against any possible landing and advance of
the British in that direction, while not far
In the rear of the working parties Arabi had
a gorgeous pavilion erected, whioh had been
brought for his special use from Alexandria.
It was furnished with an abundance of
'Turkish rugs and cushions, the dressed skins
of different wild animals and with every
other appurtenance that would render both
imposing and luxurious the tent of an Ori -
:ental commander-in-chief.
After he had perused sundry dispatches
and issued all necessary orders, to this
eeplendid pavilion was brought Nellie Donel-
ly by one of the guards.
The war minister received her with the
utmost deference, and when her conductor
had taken his departure he turned to her
with a mule and, holding her meanwhile by
an arm, exclaimed :
":How does my wife like our quarters ?
Are they not very comfortable V'
The fair girl caught his meaning in an in-
stant and her heart seemed to stand still.
" Oh, where are my father and mother 7"
she Dried. "I thought that they also were
being brought hither."
" A wife's place is at her husband's side,
both night and day, and when she marries
she is understood to leave both father and
mother and to cleave only unto him."
" Bat I am not your wife. 1 was no con-
aentfng party. I was already married."
" Those wild statements have been refut-
ed again and again, even from your father's
and mother's lips, We Orientals cannot
understand parents not being able to die -
pose of their daughters as they list, ner is
such au anomaly comprehended in Christian
countries in which I have sojourned. Be•
sides, the priest of your faith declared that
you are were not rightly married to your
countryman who ran away with you, while
I am very sure tbat y on are rightly married
unto me. For these several and good reasons
I call you my wife, and from this morning
I swear by Allah and the prophet that you
shall share the same tent and the same
couch with me. I have said it."
An expression of stony despair came into
Nellie's fade.
She gazed fer a moment daetractedly
round at all tho Oriental pomp and splendor
by which she was surrounded, but they fail -
on to fire her ambition or to dazzle her im
agination, as her Moslomlord had donbtlese
hoped that they would do,
The carved bamboo poles bent to the de-
sert wind that had just sprung up and the
crimson damask lining of the magnificent
tent glittered till the myriads of Minebea
of forget -me -note that were embroidered
thereon seemed to be instinct with life ani,
as they mat her view, Nellie remembered
that a blue forget-me-not was the last flower
that Frank Donelly had ever given to her.
This recollection it was which restored to
her the courage and resolution that was an
essential part of her character, and she
plucked from Arabi's belt the revolver that
was carelessly thrust therein, and present-
ing the muzzle at his very forehead, declared
in a voice which desperation rendered Oren
that she would pull the trigger if he did not
let her go,
" Is your hatred to me so great as all
that ?" demanded Arabi as he recoiled,
" My love of my husband and my honor is
as great as that and greater. I caro little
whether I destroy you or myself. if it real-
ly is a noble cause which you aro supporting
and your life is indispensable to its success,
tell me so and I will point the weapon to-
ward my weak and .worthless self, Wel-
oome death a thousand times rather than a
life spent with you in the °Imam: for of your
third or even your second wife."
An involuntary admiration of her conduct
seized upon the war miniator then. Ho felt
.instinctively that such a girl must possess a
soul, no matter though the tenets of his
creed declared to the contrary, and his
browscontracted more with the weight of
thought than under the influence of anger
as he said in scarcely audible accents :
"You have donbtly disarmed me, You
are safe. You may lower that weapon."
By the time that he had finished speaking
not only had they quited his own sumptu-
one pavilion, but they had also gained a les-
ser tent, behind the flap of whose oanvae
Nellie could plainly dietingulsh the voices
ef her father and mother,'
" will not oome in with you," said Arabi,
" I have lost all esteem for your parente,
and 1 care hot to hold convene with those
whet I have ceased to respect, Yon dan
tell them that within a quarter of an hour
you will all three be journeying by special
train to Cairo, for the station ie not a bun-
Bred yards away, and whither you will he
taken when you arrive there. The protect-
ors that I shall give unto you may be per-
fectly relied on, for they examen who know
that their future rests with me, eo even
their selfish interests will make them faith
ful to their trust. And now farewell,"
As he concluded the war minister raised
the Iovely girl's hand to his lips and kissed
it fervently—almoet, indeed, reverentially.
Then he raised the flap of the tent for her
to enter it thereunder, and when she had
,disappeared from his sight he oinked and
returned alone to his gorgeous pavilion,
muttering t� himmelf the while :
"I wonder if 1 have acted' as an honor.
.able man siraaply as a fool,"
Two Europeans, wan, half starved and in
every way wretched, begirt by as many
perils as ever was the Apostle Paul, are
wandering alone in the deeert, attempting to
make their way overland toward some part
or other of the Suez Canal.
Not to make a mystery of the matter,
they are none other than Frank Donellyell and
his devoted follower, Pat Monaghan, whom
in the chapter before the last we beheld
Betting out from Alexandria in the dead of
night on a most Qaixotie and hopeless er-
rand, as any but a lover and an Irishman
would have perceived from the very first.
At last, one moonlight night, they had
been perceived prowling in the neighbor-
hood of an advanced picket, actually in the
rear of the Egyptian lines (a hanging matter
according to every military code in exist.
canoe), so that a troop of horse had been sent
In pureuit of them, and these, turning their
mating and tting them off from Alexandria,
had chased them for fifteen miles out into
the desert, and from that time whenever
they had sought to retusn they had encoun-
tered some body of Bedouin horse or other,
who drove them first in one direction and
then in another, till at last (although they
ea vet bad managed to keep clear of hostile
lead and steel) they were altogether lost,
and no more knew the way back to Alexan-
dria than the way to reaan the moon.
They had been lost for more than a month
now, and all that while they have wandered
to and fro in a weird wild region of hill and
mountain, with large stretches of desert
between hille rounded at the tope, bare of
verdure and hideously monotonous of aspect,
so that one can hardly be distinguished from
another, whioh makes it all the more diffi-
cult to get out of this apparently enohanted
region, and often after attempting it for a
whole day they have found themselves at
sunset close to where they started from at
sunrise,
Even in this terrible region, however,
there Ls an oasis to be found at intervals
wide apart, each with a natural spring in ite
centre (whence, undoubtedly, its existence),
and adorned at the least with fig and date
treesfruit than whioh Ina clime like Egypt
nothing more is wanted to support life.
One morning just at dawn, Frank Don-
elly started as they were in the act ef sad-
dling their horses and exclaimed in excited
tones to his companion, " Did you not hear
it ?"
" Begorra, an' bad cess to that same, I can
only hear the barking of a fox."
" Yoa aren't troubling to listen. I wish
you would, for I want your opinion about
" Be jabers, I can hear it now, your honor.
There must be a neat of 'em close by."
" A neat of what, Pat ? What on earth de
you make it out to be then ?"
" Why, if it ain't the buzzing of the moat
thundering bumble beea or hornets I'm
blessed."
" It sounds to me a deal more like the
rush of steam through the 'scape pipe of a
diotant steamer. It seemed famIller to me
the instant that I heard it."
" I wish it was, yer honor, but steamers
don't come tearing across deserts."
" No, Pat, but in many places the desert
stretches to the very banks of the Suez Gan -
al, whioh is traversed by ocean steamers
ooutinually. Let us up and away and at
once make in the direction of the sound.
There is hope for us yet, my boy.'
" If there is, begone, here comes a pack
of those brown Bedouin devils determined
to do their best to cut us off from it. We've
not amoment to lase, yer honor,"
There was no need to lose even half a min-
ute, for the horses were already saddled, and
they had but to leap upon their backs, gath-
er up the reins and kink the corners of their
shoe -shaped stirrupa against their bony ribs
in lieu of spurs.
This done away they sped with the speed
of the vory wind out of the fertile oasis and
across the brown desert sand, whilst the
Bedouins, who had evidently hoped to steal
down upon them unperceived, runt the air
with their shrill and angry cries and brand-
ished their long spears cn high.
The monotonous sound still continued,
and the fugitives guided their horses in ice
direction, If it waa what Frank Donelly
supposed it to be 'twee still a long way off,
and by the time they had reached the canal
the steamer, from whioh he almost hoped
against hope that it proceeded, might have
passed quite out of sight.
Then all at once it struck him : Was the
canal still open ?
He was aware that the war minister had
threatened to destroy it on the firing of the
first hostile cannon against Alexandria.
If he had kept his word, the supposed
steamer was a myth, and the strange hum-
ming noise was caused by something that
might be hostile instead of friendly to them,
These were anything bat agreeable doubts
and fears,
As a drowning man clutches at a straw,
so, however, did Captain Donelly and Pat
Monaghan hang on desperately to this, their
almost remaining hopeas they aped on and
on across the level plain and around one hill
after another, the continuously humming
sound alone enabling them to steer a toler-
ably straight course.
The Bedouins hung as perseveringly' on
their trail, however, as grim death spurs
his white horse hard on the traok of plague,
pestilence or (amino, and every time they
ventured to look bank their pureners Boomed
to have gained on them, whilst that they
themselves were aware of the fact was ovi•
dent from their frequent exulting shouts and
the continual frantic brandishing of lance
and matchlock.
A wild and ferocious looking set they
were, with their long bearde, floating scarlet
headdresses, bronzed, hair naked forms and
enormous swords slung over their backs ;
whilst their horses looked almoet equally
ferocious, with their tossing heads and
streaming manes and tails, and those other
tails dyed bright red that dangled and sway
ed from their picturesque barneae.
" Pat, unless Providence Is eipeclally
looking after ne, they'll run us to earth,"
This at last, in almoet despairing tones,
came from Pat's master ; hut Monaghan's
thoroughly characteristic reply was :
" Bedad, yer honor, an' (t'a hard to say ;
but for myeelf. I feel in better spirits now
that there's something more to roues mo up
than the fifes an' other stinging an' worriting
creatures. An' besides, we've tailed through
almost as bad before.''
" Well, Pat, we can but do oar best ;• an,d,
by Jove, that we will do to the last gasp,"
They spoke no more, but strained every
neeve to prevent the Bedouins gaining
ground.
d.
Their solo comfort wan that that half hum-
ming and half ehrteking noise was more
plainly audible than ever in their front, and
decidedly very muoh nearer.
Bat sound is very unoextain in some elates
of the atmoaphere, and the still, balmy air
of Egypt bears sound at all times a long
way, no that it might be still =ilea distant,
And now the Bedouins slung their lances
andhandled their matoblookti the next in
etant dieoharging them whilst at full scallop,
according to their usual curative.
The bullets buzzed past the ears of the
fugitives like weeps and they made the most
unpleasant discovery that they wore already
within range..
To tarn at bay upon more than a snore of
time would, however, have been positive
madness, and so they atilt continued their
flight, a flight that now appeared to be
hopeless.
A big hill was directly before them, ob-
structing all view behind.
°t 1f there's no moor on the other side of
that we will sell our lives at the best price
we can get for them, Pat," said Frank Don -
oily, as be carefully examined his revolver.
"Ye may well say that," was Monaghan's
response, "° for my nag is about dead beat
as it is."
The Bedouins perceived this as well, and
their erica became like those of hungry
wolves,
Donelly involuntarily drew in his own
steed somewhat, determined that he wouldn't
plaoe himself by so muoh as a single yard in
a safer position than that occupied by his
brave and faithful follower.
The horses were both reeling rather than
galloping now, but in another minute, as
the base of the rooky hill was rounded, both
officer and man almost shrleked with de-
light at what they beheld, for not five hun-
dred yards in front of them was a narrow
strip of red water, and an enormous white -
hulled transport flying the British Union
Jack lying motionless in the centre, whilst
her bulwarks were crowded with red•jaoket-
ed, white peak -helmeted soldiers, geeing
with eager curiosity in their direction,
doubtless owing to the report of the Bedouin
matchlocks having reached their ears.
Three minutes later Captain Donelly and
Pat had gained the bank of the canal, whilst
the Bedouins, swooping round the base of
the hill, in turn received such a deadly car-
bine fire from the deck of the British tran-
sport that half of their saddles were emptied,
whereupon the survivors shrieked, wheeled
round and disappeared behind the hill again
with a gniokness that did more credit to
horse than man.
CHAPTER LVI.
THE DEATH RIDE AT EL MAGFAR—THE FIRST
vw roar.
Ten minutes later Captain Donelly and
Pat Monaghan were safe aboard the Brltlsh
transport Greece, which had been waiting
for as much as a couple of hours in the Nar-
rows of Atabet for a pilot to navigate her
through Lake Tlmsah to the town of Ismail-
ia, where, according to instructions of the
oommander-in-ohief, her living freight was
to be put ashore.
Both officer and man were glad enough to
find themeelvea amongst fellow -countrymen,
and more especially red coats, but how was
their satisfaction increased when, directly
they set foot on the transport's decks, the
" Fourth D. G." on the shoulder scrape of
the soldiers who thronged around informed
them of the meet agreeable fact that they
were with the Royal Irish Dragoon Guards,
by nickname " The Happy Family," and in
short, their own regiment,
" Thought you'd turn up somewhere or
other, old fellow," exclaimed one officer.
"Hardly in such a Mezeppa life fashion,
though," added another. " I never beheld
a more exciting steeplechase in my life.
Well ridden, too."
Thus, admilst jests and congratulations,
was their brother officer escorted to the sa-
loon, while the troopers lugged Pat Mona-
ghan off to the ship canteen to treat him to
what he had for weeks been longing for and
dreaming of and chiefly talking about, and
what he had taken to calling the "three
bleeeed B.'s," namely, bread, beef, and beer.
We are getting BO near to the end of our
tale that we find we have no time to waste
over table talk. It was the officers
breakfast hour end Frank Douolly was quite
ready for the meal, When he had b-iefly
narrated his osvn adventures and lfeteuadin
turn to plenty of divers opinions concerning
the campaign, all p%rties holding the arias'.
!mem conviction, uowever, that they would
be crossing ;worth with the Egyptalns with-
in a very few hours et most, he excitedly
exclaimed :
"1 wish to heaven that I had a horse and
a uniform, so that I might join yon."
" Faith, and I don't see what's to pre-
vent your doing that same," responded the
regimental surgeon, a genial cove of Cork,
as he was in general facetiously termed
"There's Captain 61urphydown with fever,
which he made worse through being in too
great a hurry to recover, but I'm euro he'll
feel a deal of satisfaction to think his coat
has a chance of being in the thick of the
fun even if he has to remain outaide it.
He's a man of just your own build, Captain
Donelly, and his horse is one jest after your
own heart, I'm sure."
"Are there any sink amongst the men, co
that my fellow Pat may have an equal
ouance?"
"There's jnet three, who, I fear, will
have small hope of drawing sabres before
the time has come to sheath them, and I've
no doubt your man will find that out and
not let suck an opportunity slip,"
"No, I'll be sworn that he won't," replied
Frank, "And I'll wager, too, chat he'll do
the work of any three ordinary men, if only
previously well fortified with beef and beer,"
Two hours later the Greece wan discharg-
ing her living freight upon the quay at Is-
mailia, and some of the dragoons wore sent
off to the front as quickly as they oould be
got into their saddles. '
« * * * * * *
A few words of explanation aro essential
here in order that the reader may know what
the British troops were about to far away
from Alexandria.
The fact was that when the commander-
in-ohief, Sir Garnet Wolseley, n•rrived at
Alexandria on the 2bth of August, he Found
that Arabi Pasha had raised such formidable
batteries at Kafr Dewar (where we left him
in the chapter before last) that he complete-
ly blocked the short and straight road to
Cairo, and so effectually that a fearful lots
of life must have been the result of any
attempt to force a way in thdt direction.
Soy four days after his arrival, Sir Garnet
re -embarked more than half his army, osten-
sibly with the objeot of attacking the forte in.
Aboukir bay and there effecting a landing ;
and, having deceived not only the enemy,
but a host of treubleromo and mischievous
newspaper correspondents by the carefully
spread report, he acoompliahed the moat bril-
liant ruse known In modern warfare by
steaming on far past the anticipated point
of attack and seizing' the whole length of the
Suez' Banal, time in lose than twenty-four
hours mosteuceeesfnlly accomplishing a com-
plete strategic change of baae,,briuginghim•
self nearer to the capital of Egypt by a good
fife mites; than he was at Alelrandria strik-
l
Y ,
r
hedireotly Arabi Pa ha o
it at s a c mmunio ti n
rewith and turning and, render'ingaper-
f ectly useless the formidable works at Kafr
Dewar, whioh bad taken him more than a
month t0 conatruot..
Thus was the outgenraled Egyptian oom
celled to ehuw un entirely new front in the
Valley of the Sweet Water canal, whioh.
canal he, however, promptly detained up,
in an attempt to out off the only sources of
water supply available to the British troops,
whose position for a while was critical
enough, in the neighborhood of Ismailia, at
all events ; for, independent of the water
difficulty; Arabi had the railway at his COM.
Bland and, no sooner bad the two thousand
even and a couple of guns Neu thrown
ashore, than ten thousand Egyptians, with
a battery of a dezen Krupp centime. came
steaming down from Zag.aZig, resolved to
drive the whole of the little fordo into Lake
Timaah.
It was the quick approach of the Egyptians
whioh had caused the dragoon guerde to be
take themeelvea speedily to their saddles
the very minute that their horses were slung
ashore, and no sooner were they mounted
than a couple of squadrons were Bent for-
ward to reconnoitre, nae on the right aide
of the bank in the direction of Nepthe and
the other on the left bank toward El
Magfar.
Captain Donelly had been given the com-
mand of the latter squadron and he nomin.
ated Pat Monaghan hie orderly.
The instruotionc were to bo on the alert,
to advance in line when the ground was suf-
ficiently open for such a formation. and gen-
erally to feel the way au far as El Megfar,
there to discover what the enemy were about
and if possible obtain a clue as to what they
meant doing.
" Threse about 1 march 1 trot 1" and out
flashed the sabres and away filed the dra-
goons in sections of threes, all in the highest
spirits at the near proapeot of a brash with
the foo.
After they had proceeded for about a
league, from behind te small but dense patch
of scrub Frank Donelly thought that he dis-
tinguished the glitter of steel. He was about
to send half a dozen men forward to recon-
noitre, when he was saved all trouble on
that score by the enemy suddenly revealing
himself in the shape of a well-moanted regi-
ment of Egyptian horse, who came epurring
from the rear of the scrub, brandishing their
lances ae though they thoroughly meant
rale:thief.
In numbers they were thrice the strength
of the British, whilst their horses were in
fine condition. They thus had the advan-
tage in every way. But of oonree retreat
was not to be thought of, and so Captain.
Donelly, as he cast loose his holster flaps and
then waved his sword, ahouted out :
" Trot 1 gallop 1 charge 1 Give them the
point, lade, when you can, and remember all
of you to watch your opponent's eye and not
his blade 1"
The Egyptian cavalry did not stop to re-
ceive them, but, waiting until their foes
were almost within pletol shot of them, they
parted to left and right, made a rapid re-
trograde movement in two columns, whilst
at the very moment that they thus divided
asunder a puff of white smoke and a flash of
red flames broke through the patch of scrub
and a shell came hurtling through the air
and fell plump amongst the dragoons, caus-
ing their horses to rear, plunge and shriek.
The ruse of the Egyptain cavalry had ex-
plained Haiti. Their sole intention had
been to tempt the British dragoons within
point blank range of their masked battery,
and they had effected their fell design, for,
"Hue- r -r 1 Hur-r-r 1 Hur-r-r 1" Dame three
more of the small howitzer shells, and one
trooper's head was whipped clean from off
his shoulders and the bowels of another torn
out and scattered all his horse and saddle
trappings.
Every one looked anxiously toward their
leader, wondering what his next command
would be.
" Oh 1 On 1 We daren't let it be poured
at ne in retreat, and the boldest course is the
safest !"
They saw it was so ; but had they not it
weuld have been all the same. The long
brass trumpets Bounded the " gallop," and
the dragoons went straight at the scrub.
The noise wee deafening, the smoko was
blinding, but in they burst and on they rush-
ed, and in another couple of minutes they
were tbrongh the eorub and sabering the
artilleryman at their guns, whilst the Egyp-
tian cavalry, who might have made mince
meat of them whilst so engaged, seized with
a wild panic, galloped away across the de-
sert, leaving guns and gunner; alike to their
fate, and in the deadly melee Captain Danel-
ly, who exposed himself most fearlessly,
would more than once have met his own
but for the valor and the fidelity of Pat
Monaghan.
(To BE CONTINUED.)
A Hazardous Occupation.
Some time ago the statement was publish-
ed, upon apparently good authority, that
in the course of five years service about
70 per cent. of train bands upon our rail-
ways are injured. This statement has
never been denied.
The average life of a freight brakeman is
about ten years. If the number of ac-
cidents be taken into consideration, and
the expense entailed upon the oompaniee
for damages paid in the case of such ac-
cidents be estimated, it will be seen what a
burden is oarried by the roads on account
of the defective appliances now used on
freight trains.
Most of the accidents and nearly all the
loss of life caueed by them is because the
freight engineer has no control over hie
train. The methods of stopping them are
autignated and imperfect.
Under these circumstances does it not
seem strange that on all railways the
most modern appliances for etopping
freight trains and locomotives are not used?
There aro diver brakes for freight loco-
motives and automatic brakes for freight
oarsthom-
which de all that is claimed for
This being the case, why are not these
new appliances generally adopted ?
Shocking Bad Taste.
"My dear, don't you :intend to invite
Mr. and M. Green to yottr party ?" asked
Mr. Biller,
" Certainly not."
" Why not, my dear? They are good
friends of ours."
" What if they are 1 I -am going to in-
vite Mr. and Mrs. Brown."
"Well, can't you invite the Greene, me
well ?
" Why, Jehn Biller, you shock me with
your tasted Brown and Green in my par-
lors together ! Why, next; you'll be asking
me to wear blue and yellow 1 I declare,
you men have no idea whatever of ham
molly!"
master er-'
Thirty millions' of loge are Bald to bo
Y
ready ioilio floated down the Connecticut
River. They will bo sawed at the foot of
Mount Tom,
TUB LIUD-RILN CLUB.
.,
I should like to spoke a few words to
Bruddor Amazon Green," said the Preei-
deut as the meeting opened and the Hall
grow quiet.
Brother Green, who is a young man with
a mellow look and a hitch in his gait, ad
-
winced to the platform in a hesitating ream
nor and the President continued
"Brudder Green, I Tarn dat you am on
de pint of gwine inter bizness fer yerseif, I
am. told dat you am soon to open a oo ner
grocery an' a butcher ehop combined,"
Yee, Bah."
I'ze glad dat you am about to make a
start in life, and I desiah to drop a few
hints whioh may be of seine value to you-
Brudder Green, do grocer whe gives fifteen
ounces to de pound may wax fat fur a few
years an' git to bo referee at a wreetlin'
match, but Juetioe has her eye on him, and
when the ole gal gits around to it she'll gin
him a dose dat will aot him back fer twen-
ty years.
"De pusson who sells fifty-oent tea an'
two•ehillin' tea from de same ohist may it
along powerful smart fur a while, but he's
only coaxin' a bile to grow on hie nose.
When de bile Domes he'll pay out more for
flaxseed dan he has made en tea.
"In sollin' beefsteak study human netur'.
Some men duan' object to a pound and a
half of bone to half a pound of pleat, but
we ain't all built arter dat faehun, Doan'
kill a hundred dollars wort of custom fur
do sake of seilin' fo' oenta worf of bone.
" While it am expected dat you will hide
de bad taters in de middle of de measure,
dean' misunderatan' de public an' water yer
'lasses as well,
" If a man axes you fer laoib an' you
has an got nuffia but ole sheep, tell him so.
Deceivin' a man on mutton makes him as
muoh your enemy as if you beat him out o'
a oongreshunal nominashun.
" De paper which yon buy fur two oents
a pound kin be weighed up wid goods dat
sell fur fifteen and nobody will kick, but
doan' emagino dat die gives yon license to
roast beans wid your coffee or keep fillin' up
de vinegar bar'1 wid rain -water.
" Be keerful whom you credit. Dar am
plenty of people in die world who like to
pay debts, but dar am about de same num-
ber who will jump you fur some other stoah
as soon as de books balance fo'teen cents
agin'em.
" Doan' cease gwine to ohuroh bekaee you
am in business, but next time de pew -rent -
In' Domes off take a seat a leedle furder back,
Lots of people hev somehow got de ideah
dat a modern blzness man, dein' bizness
arter de medorn fashnn, has got to do a heap
o' wrestlin' wid iris conscience in case
he adopts any pertiokler brand o' religan.
"Da publio will expect you to make some
mistakes in addishun, but be a leetle keer-
ful about it. Make 'em in favor of de pub-
lio about half de time."
FAILED TO PASS.
J edge Chewee offered the following reso-
lution :
" Resolved, Dat it am de sense of die
Lime -Kiln Club dat de present Cowries
should pass a law makin it a penal offense
fur any pigeon to place a torpedo chicken
in hie coop, De reason we want dis law am
to purteok de nateral chicken from bein'
eubjeok to exploshun."
Lord limberly Johnson favored the reso-
lution. The torpedo chicken was invented
to surprise the parson who gained access to
a hen -coop and undertook to pull a pullet off
her roost, but time had demonstrated that
the torpedo was liable to explode at any
other time and bring destruction upon inno-
cont fowls.
Sir Wallace Smith also favored the reso-
intion. He was the friend of the hen unde<
all oiroumstances, and he would ever raise
his voice to ameliorate her down -trodden
condition.
The -Rev. Penstock opposed the resolution
and demanded a call of the roll. Certain
people were always seeking to connect col
ored people and ohiokens together, but why
he could not eee. If the torpedo chicken
was invented to protect ohiokens from
thieves why need the colored man be afraid?
Why need any colorel man Beek to work
up sympathy for the hen? Judge Chowso
might prefer hen -beef to other meats, but
let him eat it in silence and not seek to drag
this club before the public in a false light.
The Secretary then called the roll, and the
Judge's resolution was voted down by a
majority of 47.
• NOT ONE,
A communication from St. Leafs made
inquiry if any member of the Lime -Kiln
Club would be attached to any base ball
club, oircus, theatrical oompany or dime
museum this coming season, If none had
been engaged were any members open to
engagement ?
Seventeen members arose in chorus, and
seventeen voices were seeking to get the
pitch, when the,President's gavel carne down
and he asked :
" Why dis sadden emoshun? Am dar a
fiah in de grocery below ?"
" What's de salary ?" asked Colonel June-
berry Crosstree in an anxious voice,
"Salary far what?"
i0 Fur trabblin' around de kentrya'
" Brudder Cresstree, sot down ! I'zs
happy to inform de public dat no member of
dis club am ingaged up to de present mo-
ment. Forder dan dat, none am open to
ingagement. We's all gwine to stay right
heah an' attend to our co'n an' Caters.
Does any pusson in dis Hall desiah to ap-
peal from de deoishun of die oha'r ?"
He looked up and down the aisles, There
was dead silence, Nobody desired to ap-
peal.
NOT A DEFAULTER.
Sir Ieaao Walpole, of the committeeo on
Internal Investigation, desired to eport on
the case of Alabaster Jordan, Assistant
Treasurer. Some four weeks since Brother
Jordan found his oash short by fifteen Dents,
or, rather the Investigating Committee did,
and he was suspended pending au examina-
tion. Four days since, in changing his
socke, the heart -broken man found the Blies-
ing money in his lett heel, where it had
slipped (own from a hole in his pocket,
He had felt the hard substances there right
along, but supposed, of coarse, they Wt re
two new corns of revised pattern. The
m;nay had been banded in, his accounts
balanced, and it pleased Sir Isamo to bo
able to inform the club that Brother Jordan
stood before them as inn000nt as a spring
lamb.
On motion of Pickles Smith, the club
adopted a resolution to tho effect that it had
not lostany confideuce in the assletant trea-
aurer,
THE CODE,
Prof, Burwell Cavendish, a late local
member, made his debut by inquiring if the
club officially upheld the code. If he vas
ineulted, an'd he challenged the insulter,
would the club etand by him ?
" What would you challenge him to do ?"
aeked the President.
" To meet me on do field of honah, salt,"
„What fur?" g,
To fight, sah,
Oh, r neo, Well, Brudder Cavendish,
nay advice to yon am to keep off' de field of
honah. You'll gityyor feet all wet, ta'r yer
ooat•tailo on de bushes, and probably be run
off by de farmer^ s, brindled dog. When a
man Somme na ''
e an
dose
,
it b mean,Pre
t0
e
g wino to let drive fur hie nose wid my unch
of fives Date code'nuff fur anybody, an'
you kin bit him on de sidewalk as welt as to
go off to some field of honah, Let ua now
adjourn fur one week,"
Training the children.
Children should be spared from sorrow ee
mach as possible ; their sunshine of hope
and joy should never be dimmed, so as to
leave them without even the memory of its
glory. The .perfume of a thousand roses
eeou dies, but the pain caused by one of
their thorns remains long after ; a saddened
remembrance in the midst of mirth is like
that " thorn among the roses."
When an accident mature, learn whether
it was through misfortune, oarelesenees or
wilfulness before you pees eentenoe. Aooi-
dente are frequently of great aervioe, and
children often learn more caution and gain
more real information from their oaourrence
than from fifty lessons. Be it r +reembered
that theperfection rfeat'o ofecieno5 ow
p i n e Ra... ing to
the ocourrenoe and remedy of its early aooi-
dente,
There can be no greater mistake than to
ooneider children as destitute of understand-
ing ; their uuderetanding should rather be
appealed to and oonaulted Most of us re•
member being imposed upon in youth and
how our elders sought sometimes to put us
off with evasive a mowers or insufficient ex-
planations ; how they told us some plausi-
pie story as an excuse or as a reason ; we al-
so remember that even in our youth and
simplicity we were quite capable of seeing
through their maneuvers.
Now I do not believe in this sort of
thing. There should be no stifling of truth
and no relaxation of duty. If, as often will
ap pen, it is not expedient or proper for
the children to know a particular fact or in-
cident, they should be told so with kindnet s
and frankneae, but at the same time with
firmness. 1 am afraid parents are too apt
to overlook the intelligence of their children
and address themselves to their stature ;
they forget the mind, whioh is invisible, in
the presence of matter, which is seen.
Tne treatment of children must always,
for their own sakes, differ muoh from that
of adults. Our manner of addreeeing them
must also be different ; but there does not
seem to be any reason why we should not
give them full oredit for the amount of in-
telligenoe they do pounces. We may every
day see children with more discrimination,
greater good sense, of better regulated mor-
al deportment, than many whose tall figure
or riper age has invested them with the
consequence of men and women.
A Bulgarian Heroine.
The Widdin correspondent of the St.
Petersburg Novesti sends to that newspaper
the folio Niue account of se young Bulgarian
girl who took an active part in the late war
against Servia, distinguishing herself at
Siivnitza and at Pitot, and reoeived two
crosses for bravery. Previous to the out-
break of hostilities she joined a oompany of
militia—such companies were then forming
in various parts of Bulgaria—and a000m-
panied it to the southern frontiiethe the hope
of there meeting with the enemy,1 During
some time she managed to conceal her sex,
for her oomrades took her to be a youth
with an effeminate face, of which there
were many snoh to be met with among the
militia. Only the commander of her oom-
pany knew her secret; she was obliged to
disclose it to him when the company had set
out upon its march, and he appears to have
loyally kept it to himself, In all exercises,
parades and reviews she took part jointly
with her mals comrades. At last, when
Servia declared war against Bulgaria, the
heroine took part in the forced arch into
Servia, fought at the battle of'S itza, axed
joined in the attack upon Pir t. During
the fight she did all she could to encourage
her comrades, and they in return unamions-
ly voted to her the company's medal for
bravery. When, in consequence of the war
coming to as end, the militia was dispersed
she wont to Sofia and was there presented
to Prince Alexander, who awarded her a
second decoration for bravery. She then
returned to Widdin, her place of domicile
before the war, where she ante as servant
to an old lady. She says that should the
Servians begin another war she will again
fight against them, but in her woman's at-
tire, for it is not worth while to change
one's dress for such an enemy.
Essay on " Columbus."
The following story comes from a school
in the Midlands, The master told the
boys of the third class to write a short essay
upon Columbus, The following was sent
up by an ambitious essayist : " Clumbus
was a man who oould make an egg stand on
end without breaking it. The King of
Spain said to Clumbus, ' Can you discover
America ? ' Yes,' said Clumbus, ' if you
will give me a ship.' So he had a ship,
and called over the sea in the direction
where he thought America ought to be
found. The sailors quarrelled, and they
said they believed there was no such place.
But after many days the pilot came to him
and said, ' Clumbus,' I see land.' ' Then
that is America,' said Clumbus. When
the ship got near the land was full of black
men. Clumbus said, ' Is this America ?'
",Yes it is,' said they. Then he said, ' I
euppose you are the Niggers ?' ' Yes,"
they said ; ' we are.' The ohief
suppose you are Clumbus ?' ' You are
right,' said he. Then the chief turned to
his men and said, ' There is no help for it;
we aro discovered at last.'
A New Way tIo R se Chickens:
" Pompey, has yo' hearn 'bout new
way o' raisin' ohiokens ?"
" No, Jube. or'at'e dat ?"
" Why, I blebs dey calls it artyfishus
mefod, or raisin' chickens without a mud -
der." '
" Raisin' ohiokens 'dont a madder ? Lor'
sakes 1 dat boy 'Zekal o' mine knowo all
'bout ."
" Hedatdo ?"
" Yang ! He'm been raisin' ohiokens off
o' roosts deze las' ten year, an' I don' spec'
he ebber took his madder wid 'im once."
-Dass.-i
Mary Anderson is computed. to be worth
$500,000, which is said to be safely invested
in real estate,' gas atocke and railway shares,
both in England and America. A small
portion of ie is in American bonds, She ex •
peote to clear this year $150,000. But our
Mary is not so doh as her sister professional,
Lotti, who, as a rule, lives frugally, and is
eminently businesslike. She olaime to be,
and probably is, the wealthiest woman on
the stage. Her dollars are estimated as
totalling up to considerably more than a
clear million, Most of the money is held in
the halite of her mother, Mre. Crabtree, who
has been her daughter's business manager
ever sines she appeared on the stage. Lotta
has sustained only one porion; monetary lose.
A man she was engaged to wap at the bottom
of it, She let him have $20,000 to epeou-
late with. He lost the whole of it, and
Lotta's heart and hand at the sante time,